https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The lack of an EU licence for Covishield - the AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in India - is leading to travellers from the UK, India and African to be technically classed as "unvaccinated" under French travel rules. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210705/can-brits-vaccinated-with-astrazenecas-indian-produced-covishield-jab-come-to-france Mon, 05 Jul 2021 18:55:21 +0200 can-brits-vaccinated-with-astrazenecas-indian-produced-covishield-jab-come-to-france France's health minister Olivier Véran has warned that the country could be facing a fourth wave of Covid cases by the end of July, driven by the delta variant which is causing a big spike in cases in the UK. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210705/french-health-minister-warns-of-fourth-wave-of-covid-by-end-of-july Mon, 05 Jul 2021 11:45:55 +0200 french-health-minister-warns-of-fourth-wave-of-covid-by-end-of-july With travel from the USA and Canada to France opening up at long last, fully vaccinated Americans have been asking if they can access the French and European health passports. Here is the situation. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210630/can-american-visitors-use-vaccine-passports-for-travel-or-leisure-in-france Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:00:54 +0200 can-american-visitors-use-vaccine-passports-for-travel-or-leisure-in-france The French health minister has said he is willing to consider the idea of charging non-vaccinated people for 'convenience' Covid tests - for example tests needed to travel or to enter venues like nightclubs. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210628/is-france-about-to-start-charging-for-certain-types-of-covid-test Mon, 28 Jun 2021 19:13:19 +0200 is-france-about-to-start-charging-for-certain-types-of-covid-test Many under 35s in Spain's Basque Country have discovered they're able to travel to Biarritz in France to get their Covid-19 vaccine sooner than in Spain, even though they’re not residents in the neighbouring country.  https://www.thelocal.fr/20210621/how-hundreds-of-young-people-in-spain-are-going-to-france-to-get-their-covid-vaccine-sooner Mon, 21 Jun 2021 12:00:37 +0200 how-hundreds-of-young-people-in-spain-are-going-to-france-to-get-their-covid-vaccine-sooner The other day I joined the more than 14 million French people who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, writes John Lichfield. Whilst in the nurse’s waiting room, I overheard - all right I eavesdropped on - a conversation between several already-jabbed or soon-to-be-jabbed Normans. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210610/opinion-france-is-much-less-vaccine-shy-than-previously-feared-but-can-it-reach-90-percent-coverage Thu, 10 Jun 2021 14:52:22 +0200 opinion-france-is-much-less-vaccine-shy-than-previously-feared-but-can-it-reach-90-percent-coverage Europe has said it will welcome fully vaccinated Americans with open arms this summer, but exactly how you prove you are vaccinated is a slightly more complicated question. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210528/reader-question-can-i-use-my-american-vaccination-certificate-to-enter-france Fri, 28 May 2021 13:11:14 +0200 reader-question-can-i-use-my-american-vaccination-certificate-to-enter-france France's health minister has formalised the vaccine policy for people who have had and recovered from Covid, and announced that vaccine centres will be equipped with antibody tests to test everybody before they are vaccinated. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210604/french-health-minister-anyone-who-has-had-covid-only-needs-one-vaccine-dose Fri, 04 Jun 2021 10:59:10 +0200 french-health-minister-anyone-who-has-had-covid-only-needs-one-vaccine-dose France will start offering Covid-19 vaccines to everyone between 12 and 18 on June 15th, President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210603/france-to-start-vaccinating-12-18-year-olds-in-june Thu, 03 Jun 2021 10:21:30 +0200 france-to-start-vaccinating-12-18-year-olds-in-june Half the adult population in France will have had at least one dose of vaccine against Covid-19 by the end of Wednesday, but 'warning signs' in the south west of France mean it would be unwise to speed up the process of reopening, the government says. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210602/warning-signs-of-virus-resurgence-in-south-west-france-says-government Wed, 02 Jun 2021 18:05:11 +0200 warning-signs-of-virus-resurgence-in-south-west-france-says-government The Covid-19 vaccine programme is now open to all adults living in France, with the goal of offering a vaccine to everyone who wants one by the end of the summer - but what about under 18s? https://www.thelocal.fr/20210531/what-is-frances-plan-for-covid-vaccines-for-under-18s Mon, 31 May 2021 19:13:24 +0200 what-is-frances-plan-for-covid-vaccines-for-under-18s From Monday, all adults living in France are eligible for the Covid vaccine as the country opens up the programme to all age groups. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210520/latest-france-to-accelerate-the-opening-of-covid-vaccines-for-everyone Thu, 20 May 2021 16:34:33 +0200 latest-france-to-accelerate-the-opening-of-covid-vaccines-for-everyone The Pfizer vaccine is slightly less effective but appears to still protect against the more transmissible Indian strain of the virus that causes Covid-19, according to a study by France's Pasteur Institute. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210529/pfizer-jab-probably-protects-against-the-covid-19-indian-variant-says-french-study Sat, 29 May 2021 17:03:43 +0200 pfizer-jab-probably-protects-against-the-covid-19-indian-variant-says-french-study Those lucky enough to have received both doses of their vaccine are beginning to think of international travel again, but some restrictions remain in place even for the double-jabbed. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210521/reader-question-i-am-fully-vaccinated-do-i-need-any-extra-paperwork-to-enter-france Fri, 21 May 2021 19:12:36 +0200 reader-question-i-am-fully-vaccinated-do-i-need-any-extra-paperwork-to-enter-france International students in France will have the opportunity to be vaccinated ahead of the new academic year in September, the government has announced. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210528/france-to-offer-covid-vaccines-to-international-students Fri, 28 May 2021 13:15:41 +0200 france-to-offer-covid-vaccines-to-international-students For those who want to travel this summer it looks like a vaccination certificate will be the must-have accessory - so here's how to get one. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210507/reader-question-how-do-i-get-a-french-vaccination-certificate-and-can-i-get-one-without-a-carte-vitale Fri, 07 May 2021 18:34:19 +0200 reader-question-how-do-i-get-a-french-vaccination-certificate-and-can-i-get-one-without-a-carte-vitale French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi and Britain's GSK announced on Thursday the start of final tests of their belated Covid vaccine as they race to add their jab to the world's arsenal against the pandemic. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210527/final-testing-begins-on-franco-british-covid-vaccine Thu, 27 May 2021 11:32:59 +0200 final-testing-begins-on-franco-british-covid-vaccine Several French social media influencers say have been approached by a mysterious company, appearing to be based in London, offering them money to post videos discrediting the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210525/french-social-media-influencers-offered-money-by-foreign-company-to-discredit-pfizers-covid-vaccine Tue, 25 May 2021 19:10:19 +0200 french-social-media-influencers-offered-money-by-foreign-company-to-discredit-pfizers-covid-vaccine Extra testing and vaccination centres have been set up in south west France after the discovery of a 'worrying' variant of the Covid virus. Here's what we know about it. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210525/what-is-the-bordeaux-variant-of-covid-and-should-france-be-worried Tue, 25 May 2021 12:00:36 +0200 what-is-the-bordeaux-variant-of-covid-and-should-france-be-worried Before opening up vaccines to all from May 31st, France has announced a list of jobs that qualify you for a priority vaccine. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210521/the-priority-jobs-that-qualify-you-for-an-early-vaccine-in-france Fri, 21 May 2021 13:10:10 +0200 the-priority-jobs-that-qualify-you-for-an-early-vaccine-in-france